Sinolingua Virtual Library vs Dot Languages
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sinolingua Virtual Library
Access a collection of Chinese language learning ebooks with integrated audio, highlighting, and translation. Explore stories that delve into Chinese language and culture, offering an immersive reading experience.
- Ebook reading support
- Integrated audio stories
- Highlighting features
- Translation tools
- Chinese language and culture content
- Collection of ~200 ebooks
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Sinolingua, a specialist publisher of Chinese language learning materials from China, has developed this APP to support ebook reading via your mobile devices. We hope to enhance your reading experience and bring you a higher level of enjoyment and convenience! Please feel free to browse through our ebooks and experience the joy of reading at the comfort of your palm. Carefully blended from a variety of stimulating genres, we have released about 200 ebooks and more in the coming months. Current ebooks are mostly readers and are well supported with audio, highlighting and translation features. Reading our stories, you will learn about Chinese language and culture developed from 5000 years of civilization. With eyes closed and experience our audio stories, you will feel like you are already in China!
Dot Languages
Master Mandarin Chinese with engaging texts tailored to your skill level, from beginner to advanced. Practice reading, listening, and writing with daily new content covering diverse topics. Share and discover texts with a community of learners.
- Learn Mandarin Chinese texts
- HSK 1-9 level categorization
- Daily new text additions
- Custom text creation and sharing
- Reading, listening, and writing practice
- Progress tracking
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Dot Languages is a complete Chinese learning app: lessons carefully written and crafted by humans, advanced exercises powered by AI — all built around a structured curriculum aligned to HSK 3.0 (2021 and 2025) and TOCFL 2.0 (2023), with personalised practice. Learn at your own pace through a dynamic HSK-aligned learning path with 11,000+ lessons covering vocabulary, grammar, and reading. Read new articles daily, refreshed for every HSK level, and look up any word in a comprehensive Chinese-English dictionary with character components. Practice that adapts to you: spaced repetition for vocabulary retention, animated stroke-order character writing, speech recognition for pronunciation, multiple choice, matching, sentence arrangement, flash cards, and AI-evaluated open-ended questions. Stay motivated with awards, streaks, learning milestones, leaderboards, and social profiles. Track your performance with weekly progress charts. Bring your own content — add private articles from any source and generate study material from text you paste in. More features: family plans, teacher classroom tools, grammar with sentence-structure analysis, and variable-speed audio narration of articles.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dot Languages at 72% against Sinolingua Virtual Library's 0%. Dot Languages also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (55 vs 1). Sinolingua Virtual Library's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 5). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Dot Languages sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month. Sinolingua Virtual Library asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sinolingua Virtual Library holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dot Languages has 55 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Sinolingua Virtual Library's written reviews are positive against 72% of Dot Languages's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Sinolingua Virtual Library ships an update every 3 months, Dot Languages every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sinolingua Virtual Library | Dot Languages |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (55 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 72.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 55 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 198 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | QueryLoop Inc. | Dot Languages ApS |
Customer experience
Sinolingua Virtual Library
Dot Languages
Bugs and requests
Sinolingua Virtual Library
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Dot Languages
Reported bugs
12 issues- App closes every time after signing up
- App not opening
- App crashes on startup
- Articles disappear when hitting back icon
- Return button partially visible after lesson
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- Bug where leaving and re-entering a story counts as two reads
- App freezes and never works again
- Login screen freezes
- App doesn't load at all
- Kicks out of login every time app is opened
- Streak and articles read does not carry across devices
- Button of 'open more stories' doesn't work
Requested features
9 requests- Add Korean and Japanese language options
- Add stories in addition to articles
- Option for lifetime subscription
- Speaking exercises
- More vibrant colors and backgrounds
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- Pictures to help remember words
- Way to practice tones for each character
- Option to switch to traditional characters
- App for Cantonese
In-app purchases
Sinolingua Virtual Library
No in-app purchases
Dot Languages
- Standard Monthly7 Days trial$9.001 Month
- Dot Premium - Monthly7 Days trial$18.491 Month
- Standard Yearly7 Days trial$72.001 Year
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- Dot Premium - Yearly7 Days trial$135.991 Year
- Dot Premium - Family Plan7 Days trial$339.001 Year
Questions
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